Born to Run features in Amazon.com’s ‘100 Books to Read in a Lifetime’

McDougall’s Born to Run featured amongst ‘A bucket list of books to create a well-read life’

Who would have ever thought that a book about running would be regarded as a classic, and feature amongst other literary classics such as Orwell’s 1984, Nabokov’s Lolita, and Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (not to mention Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar)?

Well, the international bestseller took the word by storm in 2010, and has made Amazon.com’s cut! Incredible.

Amazon.com’s 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime:

Title

Author

1984

George Orwell

A Brief History of Time

Stephen Hawking

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Dave Eggers

A Long Way Gone

Ishmael Beah

A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Beginning: The Short-Lived Edition

Lemony Snicket

A Wrinkle in Time

Madeleine L’Engle

Alice Munro: Selected Stories

Alice Munro

Alice in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

All the President’s Men

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir

Frank McCourt

Are You There, God? It’s me, Margaret

Judy Blume

Bel Canto

Ann Patchett

Beloved

Toni Morrison

Born To Run – A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Christopher McDougall

Breath, Eyes, Memory

Edwidge Danticat

Catch-22

Joseph Heller

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Roald Dahl

Charlotte’s Web

E.B. White

Cutting For Stone

Abraham Verghese

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Brene Brown

Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 1

Jeff Kinney

Dune

Frank Herbert

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

Hunter S. Thompson

Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn

Goodnight Moon

Margaret Wise Brown

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Jared M. Diamond

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

J.K. Rowling

In Cold Blood

Truman Capote

Interpreter of Maladies

Jhumpa Lahiri

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth

Chris Ware

Kitchen Confidential

Anthony Bourdain

Life After Life

Kate Atkinson

Little House on the Prairie

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Love Medicine

Louise Erdrich

Man’s Search for Meaning

Viktor Frankl

Me Talk Pretty One Day

David Sedaris

Middlesex

Jeffrey Eugenides

Midnight’s Children

Salman Rushdie

Moneyball

Michael Lewis

Of Human Bondage

W. Somerset Maugham

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

Out of Africa

Isak Dinesen

Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi

Portnoy’s Complaint

Philip Roth

Pride & Prejudice

Jane Austen

Silent Spring

Rachel Carson

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut

Team of Rivals

Doris Kearns Goodwin

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

Michael Chabon

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Malcolm X and Alex Haley

The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Diaz

The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger

The Color of Water

James McBride

The Corrections

Jonathan Franzen

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America

Erik Larson

The Diary of Anne Frank

Anne Frank

The Fault in Our Stars

John Green

The Giver

Lois Lowry

The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials

Philip Pullman

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Handmaid’s Tale

Margaret Atwood

The House At Pooh Corner

A. A. Milne

The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

The Liars’ Club: A Memoir

Mary Karr

The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)

Rick Riordan

The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Long Goodbye

Raymond Chandler

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

Lawrence Wright

The Lord of the Rings

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales

Oliver Sacks

The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Michael Pollan

The Phantom Tollbooth

Norton Juster

The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel

Barbara Kingsolver

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Robert A. Caro

The Right Stuff

Tom Wolfe

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

The Secret History

Donna Tartt

The Shining

Stephen King

The Stranger

Albert Camus

The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway

The Things They Carried

Tim O’Brien

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Eric Carle

The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel

Haruki Murakami

The World According to Garp

John Irving

The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion

Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption